On the Picket Line With the LA Substitute Teachers Who Refused to Scab

Newsletter Top Stories On the Picket Line With the LA Substitute Teachers Who Refused to Scab [Splinter]( January 15, 2019 [On the Picket Line With the LA Substitute Teachers Who Refused to Scab]( [At the beginning of this month, Los Angeles substitute teacher Irene Pineda didn’t know much about the politics surrounding a possible strike by LA teachers, but she was preparing to cross the picket line if she had to.]( [MEDIA]( [The Media Can't Get Enough of the Same Worthless AOC Take]( [Big news today: Centrist Democrats are not so sure about this Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gal. Have you heard? You probably haven’t heard this four thousand times since she won her primary last summer, so let’s talk about it again, just in case you didn’t hear.]( [If Mexico were a Dictatorship]( [If Mexico were a dictatorship, where pundits were killed, dissenters were jailed as political prisoners, people were tortured, the press was censored and political opponents were crushed, my hope would be that other countries around the world stand up and defend the Mexican people.]( [ELECTIONS]( [Beto on Immigration: I Dunno, What Do You Guys Think?]( [Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke is celebrating his first month out of Congress by indulging some rampant speculation about what he’ll do next, including a potential run for president in 2020. On Tuesday, the Washington Post published a lengthy interview with O’Rourke where reporter Jenna Johnson essentially grilled O’Rourke on what...]( [MEDIA]( [NBC News Reportedly Warned Staffers Not to Go Crazy and Call Steve King 'Racist']( [NBC News seems to be having a difficult time calling white supremacy what it is after the network reportedly directed staffers not to label infamous racist Iowa Rep. Steve King’s latest remarks “racist.”]( [SPONSORED]( [Get 20% Off Bombas: The Casual Sock Engineered For Comfort & Athletics]( [Bombas are made from breathable, fine-gauge cotton with a Y-stitch to naturally cup your heel. Their stay put grip tech doesn’t slip off and has the ideal amount of elasticity and tension, plus the contour seam eliminates the annoying bump that runs across your toes for all day comfort. Use...]( [TRUMP ADMINISTRATION]( [Here's All the Ridiculous Ways Trump's Inaugural Committee Spent Its Money]( [President Trump’s inauguration committee raised $107 million for the famously packed 2017 event from private donors—at least twice as much as either President Obama or President Bush spent on any one of their inaugurations.]( [Laura Loomer Is at It Again]( [Alt-right provocateur and free speech martyr Laura Loomer is not content to rest on her laurels as the woman who locked herself to (one of) the doors at Twitter headquarters and demanded to be given back her God-given right to post. But Loomer wants more. She wants fame. She wants...]( [YOU MAY ALSO LIKE]( [THE GRAPEVINE]( [Broadway Legend Carol Channing Dies at 97, 'Proud as Can Be' of Her Black Heritage]( [“No white woman can do it like I did,” Carol Channing told CNN host Larry King in 2003. The beloved singer and actress enjoyed more than 70 years of success on stage and screen before dying of natural causes on Tuesday morning in her home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Channing...]( [GIZMODO]( [Netflix Is About to Cost You More Money]( [Netflix, the video streaming service no one can seem to quit despite its increasingly poor collection of titles, is about to hike up its prices.]( [ADEQUATE MAN]( [We Need A New "America's Team"]( [Today, we’re talking about shoelaces, Trump’s hair, insomnia, Philly sports fans, and more.]( [DEADSPIN]( [These New Basketball Sneakers Are Stupid]( [Five years ago I was in a gaggle of journalists on Nike’s campus. There must’ve been hundreds of us. It felt like overkill at the time. I struck up a conversation with a reporter from the Portland Business Journal, and he was just as mystified as I was. “Where’d they...]( You made it to the end. Thanks for reading our newsletter! [Visit Splinter]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( [Terms of Use]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Unsubscribe]( © 2019 Gizmodo Media 114 5th Avenue, Floor 2 New York, NY, 10011